Anderson

How does it hurt to learn from their experience in creating their legal form of organization insofar as to be eligible for Steam?

I guess it's easier to ask the experience of other free "mods to standalones" developers than to second guess. No More Room in Hell; Alien Swarm, Sven Co-op; Fistful of Frags for example. I mean, the worst case is a cease and desist letter. It doesn't go to court just like that. Then you just delist the game from Steam in the worst case. And fix the problem that they are upset about. Then back to Steam. Easy.

I fail to see what kind of problems and why shall some contributions bring any problems to TDM as long as there are many mods that are published on Steam with no issue whatsoever. Thereby there should be no question to TDM neither.

Btw in case anyone offers to publish TDM on some store, does anyone manage the "team@thedarkmod.com" email? I mean like, reading mail regularly, checking legit email that went to spam etc.?

It's because before 2013 you had to own Doom 3 to play TDM. So if you weren't willing to pirate or to buy Doom 3, you couldn't play TDM. InB4 TDM became standalone.

Let's accept all teh migrants.

Let's not.

The absolute minimum any TDM level needs is a map where it highlights where the PC is located at - such as in Thief 2.

Another useful reference - The Rabat Plan of Action https://www.ohchr.org/en/issues/freedomopinion/articles19-20/pages/index.aspx

https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/ns-oh-god-how-is-this-legal

add achivementz plz

They can make an exception if asked nicely. It's been 20 years.

Do we need to ask for written permission from the authors?